Have Faith & Move Forward
Kim and I wanted our wedding cake to be unique (unique like our wedding announcement). Plus, I wanted the cake to be easily consumed. So, after much deliberation, we decided to have our wedding cake made entirely out of cupcakes. Well, not entirely. The top was an actual cake (or a giant cupcake…however you want…
At age 27, long before he would become the titan of Russian literature, Fyodor Dostoevsky was sentenced to four years of hard labor in Siberia for crimes against the state. Before his deportation, he was given a leather-bound copy of the New Testament. In her memoirs, Dostoevsky’s wife, Anna Grigor’evna said that “During the entire four years…
Kidnapped and sold into slavery at age ten, Phillis Wheatley overcame tremendous disadvantages and became the first African American to have ever have their writing published in America—and the first American woman to ever be published. Her writings touched upon the lives of other prominent Americans like George Whitfield, George Washington and countless others; inspiring…
“Both abundance and lack [of abundance] exist simultaneously in our lives, as parallel realities. It is always our conscious choice which secret garden we will tend … when we choose not to focus on what is missing from our lives but are grateful for the abundance that’s present—love, health, family, friends, work, the joys of…
While my wife and I appreciated all of the many gifts, cards, and well wishes that we received at our wedding, there was one gift in particular that stood apart from the rest. An empty jar. Attached to it was a letter with a quote from S. Michael Wilcox and a note from some dear…
I found it in our storage shed last September: a dining table of solid oak. It has been in our family for as long as I can remember. It served as our dining table when we lived in Anchorage, Alaska; it was where we had our family meals, our birthday celebrations, and our Thanksgiving and Christmas…
Although separated by an ocean, several decades, and completely different audiences, it is remarkable how strikingly similar Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1891) and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter (1850) are to one another. In what ways are these two books so similar? More importantly, what is the primary message that these two authors—separated…
“You know, Seth,” my dad hesitated. “Maybe you should go to ANASAZI as a SinaguaWalker.” “What?” I said, frantically trying to read my dad’s mind. “It’s a program where people go to find themselves.” Find themselves, I sarcastically repeated to myself. I know that what that means. He’s not fooling me. I don’t need to…
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